Beech 18D
N87AZ is a Beech 18D, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1936. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Beechcraft Heritage Museum INC, a corporation in Tullahoma, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 26, 1997 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 30, 1991.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- 18D
- Serial number
- 178
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Jacobs L6 · 330 hp
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- 1936
- Cruising speed
- 165 mph
- Transponder code
- ABF415 (octal 52772025)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 26, 1997
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 30, 1991
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00600852
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Beechcraft Heritage Museum INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 550
Tullahoma, TN 37388-0550
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N87AZ, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Beechcraft Heritage Museum INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 26, 1997, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 30, 1991, 55 years after the 1936 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 178 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N87AZ according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N87AZ. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data